Photo: Anti-Japanese demonstration at Beijing, April 16th 2005, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Anti-Japanese demonstration at Beijing, April 16th 2005, thanks to Mark Hobbs for the photo, via blogger
Read MoreChina’s drive to host best Olympic games – Geoff Cumming
From the New Zealand Herald: National pride apart, it’s difficult to see how residents in the hutongs will gain from China’s hosting of the the multi-billion-dollar 29th Olympic Games. Shao Liu’s home is one of 11 clustered around a courtyard, extended families sharing a single toilet. Although vast swathes of hutong and siheyan (courtyard-style housing […]
Read MoreSex and the City (and China’s media crackdown) – Pietro Ventani
From Asia Times: Wait a minute: what is a show about a group of single women obsessed with shoes and sex doing on China’s primetime TV schedule? Aren’t China’s TV censors known for diligently filtering out any content that is deemed unsuitable? Welcome to the grey area of China’s media policy, a zone where foreign […]
Read MoreThe China Bubble – Andrea Mandel-Campbell
From Maclean’s: If Japan was a surging tide, then China is a tsunami. The globe’s most populous country turned manufacturing juggernaut has a one-two punch of low-cost labour and homegrown national champions taking the world by storm. Its economy, which has been growing above nine per cent for a decade, has already surpassed Japan’s in […]
Read MoreBeijing besieged by poverty belt – Xinhua
From Xinhua: A modern and booming city that one sees through a glimpse of Beijing is featured by skyscrapers overlooking streets of overparked cars with multicolored lights lit up the city at the night. But here in the quiet Nangangzi Village of neighboring Hebei Province, only 15 kilometers from Beijing’s boundary, the 74-year-old Zhang Jianzhi […]
Read MoreUS scholar: Strong China not a security threat – Xinhua
From Xinhua: A stronger China does not mean it becomes a threat to the United States and the Asian country’s rapid development is to the benefit of the whole world, including America, a US scholar says. Michael Swaine, an expert on US-China military and security policy at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading […]
Read MoreFarmers turn away from mining work – Xinhua
From Xinhua – English: Chen Yuemin, 47, a farmer from Quannan County, east China’s Jiangxi Province, might never expect that his quest for more money and a better life would be ended in such a tragic way. Chen, who switched to work on a coal mine seven hours’ bus ride away from his home just […]
Read MoreThe Real Circulation Numbers for Beijing Newspapers – Liu Jing
From Yannan Forum, translated by EastSouthWestNorth, Liu Jing is a journalism student in the People’s University. From a colleague in the business of newspaper distribution, I learned a lot of insider information which are unwritten rules within the industry. If there is not yet an authoritative organization to determine newspaper circulation, then we will have […]
Read MoreShanghai to register legal names of all mobile phone subscribers beginning September 1 – Interfax
From Interfax: All mobile phone and Xiaolingtong (PHS) subscribers in Shanghai, new and old, will have to register their legal names with city authorities beginning September 1, the Shanghai Communications Administration and the Shanghai Public Security Bureau (PSB) said on Friday. “We have tightened control in order to protect mobile phone users from malicious and […]
Read MoreChina’s Angry Petitioners – Sara Davis
From The Asian Wall Street Journal, via A Glimpse of the World: This summer, I took a research team to Beijing to document police abuse against petitioners for an upcoming Human Rights Watch report. In pairs and small groups, over the course of two weeks, the victims straggled into our various meeting rooms, hidden around […]
Read MoreChinese Farmers Escape Harvest Tax Paid for Centuries – Rob Gifford
From National Public Radio: For the first time, Chinese farmers are not paying a harvest tax. Beijing is lifting the tax to fight growing unrest in the countryside that in the past has brought on revolution. Listen to the story here.
Read MoreChinese media resisting party control – Robert Marquand
From the Christian Science Monitor: A rare protest by Chinese journalists at a leading national newspaper offers a window into the intensifying severity of information control in China and the sometimes sophisticated resistance to it by Chinese journalists. A frank 19-page letter by Li Datong, a senior editor at China Youth Daily, details a struggle […]
Read MoreChina Preparing to Tax Vehicles With Large Engines – Keith Bradsher
From The New York Times: Alarmed by high world oil prices and sporadic shortages of gasoline and diesel fuel in big cities this summer, China’s leaders are drafting plans to impose steep taxes on cars and sport utility vehicles with gas-guzzling engines. The taxes would add as much as 27 percent to the price of […]
Read MorePhoto: China, Russia joint military exercise, by Cha Chuning, via Duowei.com.
China, Russia joint military exercise, by Cha Chuning, via Duowei.com
Read MorePhoto: Shanghai punks, thanks to Shanghai Streets for the photo
Shanghai punks, thanks to Shanghai Streets for the photo
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